The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Since the last year I have been pretty interested in Internet marketing and one day my friend Ruslan Abuzant suggested to register at one of the biggest Internet marketing forums - the digital point forums.

Later the same day he said that there was this special cool feature that displayed the current music (current track) you were listening to. He said that WinAmp was not supported and it would be a pretty interesting thing to write for DPF. So I got the Winamp SDK, played with examples a little and after a few days had the plugin running. At first I thought I'd sell a copy for $5 each but now I decided to give it away for free and even opensource it under GNU GPL license.

I have actually not yet published it. It's compiled and works but not yet put on the site. I coded it more than a year ago and have forgotten some stuff, so I need to find time to refresh my memory and finish the whole article.